SIGWEB is a

Special Interest Group A special interest group (SIG) is a community within a larger organization with a shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning or technology where members cooperate to effect or to produce solutions within their particular f ...

of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...

(ACM) on

hypertext Hypertext is E-text, text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access. Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typic ...

hypermedia Hypermedia, an extension of hypertext, is a nonlinear medium of information that includes graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks. This designation contrasts with the broader term ''multimedia'', which may include non-interactive linear ...

, and the

World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables Content (media), content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond Information technology, IT specialists and hobbyis ...

. SIGWEB was named SIGLINK until November 1998.

Conferences

SIGWEB sponsors several conferences relating to hypertext and the World Wide Web. ACM SIGWEB core conferences are: * The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext) * The ACM

Web Conference Web most often refers to: * Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal * World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to: Computing * WEB, a literate programming system created by D ...

(WebConf) * The ACM Document Engineering Conference (DocEng) * The ACM

Web Science Web science is an emerging interdisciplinary field concerned with the study of large-scale socio-technical systems, particularly the World Wide Web. It considers the relationship between people and technology, the ways that society and technolo ...

Conference (WebSci) * The ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) * The ACM

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management A conference is a meeting, often lasting a few days, which is organized on a particular subject, or to bring together people who have a common interest. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always d ...

(CIKM) * The ACM/

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) * The ACM International Conference on

Web Search A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages, and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The user enters a query in a web browser or a mobile app, and the search results are typically ...

and

Data mining Data mining is the process of extracting and finding patterns in massive data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems. Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and ...

(WSDM) ACM SIGWEB Cooperating Conferences are as the following: * The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) * The ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) * The International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) * The International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS) * The International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) * The International Web for All Conference (W4A) * The International Conference on Web Studies (WS- Web Studies) * The International Conference on Webmedia (Webmedia) * The International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) * The ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX)

Awards

SIGWEB has three main awards that are given out annually: the

Douglas Engelbart Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly ...

Best Paper Award, the

Ted Nelson Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms ''hypertext'' and ''hypermedia'' in 1963 and published them in 1965. According to his 1997 ''Forbes'' p ...

Newcomer Award, and the

Vannevar Bush Vannevar Bush ( ; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II, World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almo ...

Best Paper Award.

References

External links

* http://www.sigweb.org * https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sigs/sigweb {{Authority control Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups